Sitting here at the end of 2024, many of us are feeling uncertain about the future. Perhaps apprehensive and worried, fearful, or maybe sometimes hopeful, and possibly even at moments excited about the thrill of being alive in an era of intense upheaval and transformation.
With intense political and social tension as well as grand astrological movements occurring now and in the upcoming 2025 year reflecting the opportunity for paradigm shifts and consciousness leaps, I’ve been sitting with what I want to co-create in my life. Perhaps you, too, are thinking about what’s next for you. However, I’ve noticed that the “what” of it feels unclear and blurry. I had been ready to jump into some additional learning on a modality I was feeling drawn to and it got paused for a few months.
Meanwhile, I have noticed my mind jumping around different ideas, fixating on the unknown as a problem. And then of course the pressure rising, a feeling of needing to “figure it all out” taking over. Sound familiar?? Ahh, thank you to our minds, trying to keep us safe and in the “know” of what’s to come, even though knowing what’s to come is absolutely impossible. Pausing, breathing, returning to feeling our bodies, remembering that we can create from a feeling.
Meaning, what if we know how we want to feel in the future? I am confident that most of us want to feel similarly: peacefulness, joy, love, ease, gratitude, connection, etc. What if we actually start to cultivate that feeling in moments of pause, and let that feeling lead us forward?
I recently had the opportunity to participate in a HeartMath Institute training. I was aware of the HeartMath Institute because I’ve seen their research about how being close to horses supports people in coming into a healing state of coherence in which heart/mind/body/spirit are aligned and thus harmonious. There is amazing research about the multitude of health benefits available from being in this state. Their simple tools empower us to create coherence moment to moment, and one of the foundations is breathing through the heart, creating a feeling of ease. Then there are many variations and different ways to adjust and play with this tool. I’m excited to share more with people who come to be with the horses going forward.
But essentially with the horses, that’s what we are remembering, to feel. Feeling, the language of the heart, is where the horses reside. And from our awareness of feeling, we have choices on cultivating a feeling. Simply becoming aware of our energetic state gives us the opportunity to create harmony in our being and align our heart with our mind, body and spirit. And so while I sit with the horses or in other places moving through this life, in moments when I have a pause, I’m enjoying cultivating the feeling of the future I want to co-create with this magical universe. As a way of communicating from our hearts, a signpost to the universe, I want whatever is unfolding to feel like this! We are creating our own reality each day. The horses support us in remembering that we are much more powerful than we may think, particularly when we lead with our hearts and return to awareness and feeling. Simplicity. But we don’t actually need the horses to be in coherence, we can initiate a feeling anywhere, anytime.
Together we can cultivate peace in our hearts and share with others through our energetic field, moment by moment. Even when a part of us feels hopeless, despair, or unable to see the form of the future clearly, we can come home and play, opening to the invitation to commune with creation.